Bean
The crossword clue "Bean" is answered by ORSON, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 1975; first recorded in 1965. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ORSON
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ORSON answer page.
Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 1975; first recorded in 1965. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for ORSON
Every other clue in this collection answered by ORSON, most used first.
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- Welles of "The Third Man" - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- "Ender's Game" author ___ Scott Card - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Filmmaker Welles - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- "Touch of Evil" director Welles - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Chocolate bean - CACAO, used 25 times
- Kind of bean - PINTO, used 20 times
- Bean-bearing tree - CACAO, used 19 times
- Atkinson of "Mr. Bean" - ROWAN, used 14 times
- L.L. Bean competitor - JCREW, used 11 times
- Bean sprouts? - IDEAS, used 10 times
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